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Viers like you. Thank you. Laura this is bbc world news amica. Laura trevelyan. York, i am a Record Number of americans have lost their jobs as the the coronavirus outbreak. Pact of it really takes a turn for e worse. Italy takes a turn for the worse. There is concern over the rising number of cases in southern italy. Plus, how streaming services are feeling the cap for the millions stuck at home. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world ns america. The u. S. P...

Bipartisan process we sat down, democrat and republican, in four Different Task forcege on put together the elements of the legislation. As a result, the bill before you tonight, the one were talking about, reflects republican priority t and democratic priorities. And the gore did takendal the te to walk through it and to talk about some ofs those the people understand whats in this legislation. I was pleased to see the democratic leader say at the end he believes we can figure this out over the...

United state senate, if you hear the other side of the aisle there suggested we lost our opportunity and wasting time and nothing is happening. They argue that weve had two vote in a row sunday afternoon and yesterday to decide not to debate on the floor the mccall bill, which was produced and the argument is we cant waste a second, we need to get into Serious Business of helping people across america in turning our economy around. I just want to say for the record that i left the office not 30 ...

Quickly as possible to help Small Businesses meet payroll and operating obligations for a time roughly equivalent to six weeks. Use bankers in the Banking Industry in general, those who are approved do that and anyactivity now, other Financial Institutions through the treasury department, to participate, that basically allows Small Businesses to go get money in the amount equivalent to what payroll and operating costs are for a time of roughly six weeks. Final details are being worked out. The g...

Federal government the individuals, all individuals of 1200 for individuals, 2400 for married couples, and 500 for each child. And that would go to people who need it, people with no income, up to people with 75,000 a year income, or a married couple of 150,000 income with a phaseout to make sure that no very wealthy people are even higher income, middle income taxpayers will benefit from it. So were trying to help those who need the most help. And there wasnt disagreement from the other side th...

This is 3 declines for each of these markets. Joe, it looked worse overnight well see what happens as we get a little closer to the opening bell youve been watching the treasury. It was lockdown. It was lockdown for quite some time. And it really was about i couldnt help but saying, this is the politicians fault. It was if they had done what they looked like they were going to do as of friday, i dont think it would have been like that but then again, we may have had the, all right, they passed i...

Weve got Small Businesses that areshutting down which of course affects the people who work there. Weve got healthcare systems, they have tremendous needs and obviously they are on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus. We continue to try and make progress on a peaceful legislation that really should have been proceeded to today. The vote earlier today was a procedural vote. Basically are we going to get on the bill and what you saw was the democrats object to even getting on the bill. Obv...

Can and wet should, we must, we must pass this legislation. I was very disappointed to see that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle chose to vote no on even the ability to move forward with debating this legislation tonight. And to my call it the democratic leader who said this is a highly partisan bill, thats just not the case. Lets put the partisanship aside their klutz do whats for the american people. I will tell you that over the past several days, through a bipartisan process, we ...

Lord, give our law lawmakers aing this upper for your words and a desire to apply your knowledge in their daily work. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the m...

105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000...